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The Best-Reviewed List

abstract:Here’s a “Not the Bestseller List”—a list of the most reviewed books since September courtesy of Publisher’s Lunch.

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December 13, 2003 — The publishing industry’s online source for news and gossip, Publisher’s Lunch, recently plumbed their Book Review Index to put forth this list of the most reviewed books of this fall season: 

1. Train, by Pete Dexter 
2. Love, by Toni Morrison
3. The Fortress of Solitude, by Jonathan Lethem
4. The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
5. Elizabeth Costello, by J.M. Coetzee
6. Where I Was From, by Joan Didion
7. Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World, The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, by Tracy Kidder
8. They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967, by David Maraniss
9. Living to Tell the Tale, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10. Our Lady of the Forest, by David Guterson
11. The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, by Caroline Alexander
12. The Great Fire, by Shirley Hazzard 
13. The Fifth Book of Peace, by Maxine Hong Kingston  
14. The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary, by Simon Winchester
15. Yellow Dog, by Martin Amis